The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-30

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Chlna, smaller quantity of them goe.
as far for the same purpose as a largel
quantlty OF teas from the latter country
But who cares a pinch of Bohea fol-
treasury officials when such things are
at stake as the welfare of India, and the
proving OF really good afternoon cup
lndlan teas are almost always prepared
Win scrupulous honesty Of manufac-
ture, which is more than can be said OF
those sent from the Celestial Kingdom
although, with the low duty at present
existing, there is not SO much adultera
ton IN this article as once prevailed
when "lie-teas" used to come over which
scarcely contained a single leaf of the
genuine "thea viridls."
Rubbish is, of course, imported even
now, which is made to serve its purpose
BY CRAFTY BLENDING
with better samples; but the people at
large are good judges of the commodity,
and the seller of sloe-leaves and willow
leaves colored with gypsum and indigo
does not lind his knavish business pros
per. All dealers admit that excepting
the very finest qualities-such as the
Young Hyson, styled "mandarin-tea,"
made of the tender bud, and seldom
seen in this Countrywide Chinese leaf
profits with admixture with the Iudlan.
The gardens of India and Ceylon now
| send to Great Britain, as we see.
thlrty-tlVe pounds out of every 100
pounds employed among us, having IN
creased their supply more than tWo-fold
| in ten years. And when we consider
what 10000 600 pounds signify in the
breadth OF land occu pied b. the tea
plants, the number of hands employed
in picking drying, rolling, sorting, pack
ing and exporting the immense harvest;
that 40 shillings' worth of the best tay,'
hazarded as speculative consignment
by the old company, wears an aspect
more wonderful than the scriptural
grain OF mustard seed"
Philologists, too, might find much to
discourse upon in the way IN which the
cup that cheers" has had its name
changed. In China, its original home,
1t is "tcha;" in India, its adopted home,
1t is also ebay" and such was its
men, as is plain from the couplet,
Here thou, great Anna, whom three
realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel
take, and sometimes tea" Perhaps it
was the French the" or the Spanish
tie, which altered the original appalla-
ton.
An Indian tea-garden is at the proper
season very beautiful sight, especially
when cultivation has been clean and
careful. They are spreading, and they
Will greatly spread; but, If tea and COT
fee should never be wholly dethroned
from their dietetic pride of place, it is
quite possible that new beverages may
he invented to rival them. Mate, which
the Peruvian sucks hot through silver
pipe; guarana, much richer than the
Mocha berry or the Chinese leaf in
theme; the kola-nut and the coca plant
are all possible compe titors. The negro
or / he Soudan, Mauritius, West Indies
and Brazil would not give up the kola-
nut for the best of tea or coffee. Then
there are millions of people who drink
lntuSlons of the leaves of saXlfrage, #
ledum, OF plmento, and partridge berry,
and hundreds of unsupported plants
contain the ingredients which the
human race seeks for in such beverages.
The chief of these are the alkaloid
which is present by a proportion OF
about ) per cent. in ordinary tea, and
the aromatic oil which gives to that and
to coffee their special flavor.
The Chinese will not drink new tea
because it contains too much of the
latter ingredient, and is sometimes
actually Intoxicating. The theme"
diminishes the waste of the body,
enabling it to get along with less
nourlshment, so that it saves food and
is instinctiyely valued for this by the
poor. The Tartars obtain still more
Sustenance from their brick tea by
bordering it and boiling with salt and
mutton fat, whereby the caseine or
gluten of the plant becomes extracted
They can live for weeks on the tea
leaves, which the British housewife
throws away. On the other hand it is
distinctly bad to let tea stand too long;
that brings out tannin, and too much
tannln will turn meat taken at the same
time into a sort of leather within the
stomach. There can be little need, how
ever, to instruct the matron of these is
lands in the art of ea-making. From
the silver gilt equipage of the duchess |
to the brown stone pot IN which the |
Washerwoman solemnly prepares her |
evening dish OF tea, the art of making it |
is essentially feminine, and has been
profoundly studied. One hundred and |
eighty million pounds per annum all |
passed through teapots- what river to
spring from Pepy's first tentative spoon
full and the modest Investment of the |
old East India Company London